This course will assist you to improve your confidence and efficiency in carrying out advocacy

Course Level – Intermediate

With more pressure on lawyers to do their own advocacy in family courts, it is necessary to become more confident and able in doing so. This course will equip you with essential tips in being able to conducting advocacy in all aspects of child care cases, ranging from emergency orders, interim hearings, fact finding hearings, and case management hearings.

It will enable you to go through a series of hypothetical scenarios in this area. You will have the opportunity to prepare submissions in advance of the course, and which will be typical of those faced in practice.

This course will be of assistance to those lawyers acting for parents, children, extended family members and local authorities.

The topics covered will include amongst others, the following:

Understand good advocacy skills

Become more confident, despite a ‘difficult’ opponent

Effective preparation

Calling Evidence

Making good opening and closing speeches/submissions.

Carry out effective examination-in-chief and cross-examination

Emergency Protection Order Hearings

Contested Interim Care Hearings

Case Management and Issues Resolution Hearings

Fact Finding Hearings

Speaker Biographies

Safda Mahmood, is a Senior Solicitor, with extensive experience in both practicing and teaching family law to practitioners, academics and trainees. Safda is on the Law Society Children Law Accredited Scheme. He has written in various legal publications and has been practicing in children law for over 22 years.

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